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Ready to Feel Old? Play 'Pokemon Red' on Your Nintendo 3DS

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No company dominates your nostalgia for old-school games quite like Nintendo. Back in the '90s, mobile gaming pretty much meant one thing: the Game Boy, and one of the most popular games on that system were the original triptych of Pokémon games: Pokémon Red, Pokémon Blue, and Pokémon Yellow.

Soon, you'll be able re-live the '90s and possibly your childhood, as Nintendo is releasing the original Pokémon games on its latest handheld device, the Nintendo 3DS.

Nintendo will sell the games through the Virtual Console, the 3DS' digital games store, on February 27, 2016.

The most surprising thing about this is that Nintendo hasn't done this already. The company makes bank on nostalgia, reselling it's old games on new systems, but up until this release, there wasn't a good way to buy new copies of the original Pokémon games for new systems. You're best best would have been to find an original cartridge, and put it in the older Game Boy Advance or Nintendo DS systems.

Judging by The Pokémon Company's trailer, the new releases will look and play just like the original games, with the grey graphics and everything. You'll even be able to use the 3DS wi-fi capability to battle other players. So it'll be just like when you were a kid, only not, because you're old now. Which is probably who Nintendo is targeting with this release: older players trying to recapture their childhood. Kids these days, they're moving on to new things like Yo-Kai Watch, which Nintendo hopes will be the next generation's Pokémon.